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Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during ...

From blood-squirting lizard eyes to zombie cockroaches, the natural world is ready for a truly terrifying Halloween.

Climate change is driving many of Australia's native reptiles toward extinction, and the answers to their future survival may lie in the fossil record.

Two recently examined fossils suggest that Australia’s First Peoples valued big animals for their fossils as well as for ...

Australia encompasses the mainland of the Australian continent, Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. It ranks as the world ...

The duck-billed dinosaur was only a few years old when it died. Scientists now believe the species had hooves on its feet.

Australia's tropical rainforests are among the first in the world to start emitting more carbon dioxide than they absorb, scientists said Thursday, linking the "very concerning" trend to climate ...

New evidence shows that Aboriginal Australians have lived inland in Western Australia for more than 50,000 years. That’s 10,000 years earlier than previously known for Australian deserts. The finding ...

Explore survival tips for more deadly Australian animals. Second man dies after ambush-style shootout in quiet Royal Palm Beach neighborhood ‘Not going to allow that in our communities’: Hillsboro ...